Lead Software Engineer

Purpose:
The Software Engineering Lead heads the technical direction of an empowered product team and is responsible for translating business requirements into technical requirements and development milestones. This position has a mix of technical management, architectural design, stakeholder collaboration and hands on development.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product owners and team in task planning, estimation, scheduling, staffing and definition of high-level timeline estimates for major projects
• Provide technical leadership by determining technical requirements, exploring new technologies and determining system and software architecture.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing best practices, conducting code reviews and leading architectural discussions
• Own engineering support for the product and work closely with product management and design team to meet SLAs

Requirements

Education & Experience:

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field
• 7+ years of overall experience in software development; at least 5 years in a Lead Engineer role, as technical lead for a product team

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Expertise in C# or Java
• Ability to work collaboratively with product management, design and engineering support
• Experience with agile, CI/CD, automated testing, feature flags and software development design patterns
• Ability to create technical documentation
• Experience with AI and LLM preferred
• Ability to apply technical understanding to business and client needs, preferred

Additional information

Work Environment & Physical Demands:

The Software Engineering Lead will be able to work remotely and is expected to maintain a safe, productive work environment with secure internet access.

The organization will provide the equipment and stipend to maintain the home office. Must be able to attend team meetings remotely over video conference and maintain a set of core hours of availability based on the team they are actively working with.

Travel:
Expected to travel approximately 2 – 3 times / year for all-company annual meeting and team offsites. Travel and boarding expenses will be provided by the organization.

Accommodations:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and physical demand satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/ or ability abilities and physical demands required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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